MAKE COMPANY MEETINGS WORK

摘要

Often, one of the biggest disasters that I experience when working with companies is their meetings. Allow me to describe the typical meeting that I have experienced to see if any of these elements are present in meetings you've attended lately. There's a problem at the company and somebody (often a boss) calls a meeting to solve it. Everyone drops what they're working on and gets together in a conference room to discuss. There's typically no agenda and the manager starts by venting about the problem in all of its gory detail (which everybody usually already knows). Some solutions are offered before the real issue has even been identified and then those ideas are discussed ad nauseam. Finally, after about 30-60 minutes, everyone is worn out and the issue is tabled while more facts are gathered to have another meeting.